Multi-type acoustic feature integration method and system based on deep neural networks

ABSTRACT

The application discloses a multi-type acoustic feature integration method and system based on deep neural networks. The method and system include using labeled speech data set to train and build a multi-type acoustic feature integration model based on deep neural networks, to determine or update the network parameters of the multi-type acoustic feature integration model; the method and system includes inputting the multiple types of acoustic features extracted from the testing speech into the trained multi-type acoustic feature integration model, and extracting the deep integrated feature vectors in frame level or segment level. The solution supports the integrated feature extraction for multiple types of acoustic features in different kinds of speech tasks, such as speech recognition, speech wake-up, spoken language recognition, speaker recognition, and anti-spoofing etc. It encourages the deep neural networks to explore internal correlation between multiple types of acoustic features according to practical speech tasks, to improve the recognition accuracy and stability of speech applications.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 from ChineseApplication No. 202010073244.8, having a priority date of Jan. 22, 2020.The entire content of the aforementioned Chinese Application isincorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The application relates to the technical field of speech recognition,and in particular to a multi-type acoustic feature integration methodand system based on deep neural networks.

BACKGROUND

With the rapid development of computer technology and communicationtechnology, more and more speech applications and technologies have beenproposed in recent years. Common speech tasks comprise: speechrecognition, speech wake-up, spoken language recognition, speakerrecognition, anti-spoofing, etc. These speech tasks have been referredto as extensive and important applications in many technology fields,such as mobile phone speech assistants and smart speakers for consumerterminals, and speaker-id locks for devices in the security field.

On the one hand, the speech applications' environment is relativelycomplicated. In practical conditions, the recognition rates of speechtasks usually degrade, and the performances are also affected by factorssuch as distance, location, speaker's psychology condition, andphysiology condition. In addition, it is quite difficult to design themost appropriate acoustic feature configuration for different speechtasks, which leads to the disadvantages of current speech applications,such as weak stability and weak self-adaptability.

On the other hand, it's common to extract only a single type of acousticfeature from a speech sample as the input data of the speech task. Andthe popular acoustic features are designed with professional knowledgeand experimental experience in the acoustic signal processing field. Ifthe system models only deploy a single kind of artificially designedacoustic feature as the input data for the various speech tasks incomplex and challengeable application scenarios, insufficient expressionof the specific speech task would become a big issue, which will affectthe recognition accuracy and system robustness.

Therefore, how to explore the most essential feature expressions ofspeech signal in the specific speech task, to further train ahigh-precision and high-stability speech model has become a researchhotspot.

SUMMARY

The purpose of this application is to propose a multi-type acousticfeature integration method based on deep neural networks. Through theextraction of integrated vectors from multi-type acoustic features in aspeech task, the method and system encourage the deep neural networks toexplore internal correlation between multiple types of acoustic featuresaccording to practical speech tasks, to improve the recognition accuracyand stability of speech applications.

In the first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides amulti-type acoustic feature integration method based on deep neuralnetworks, the method comprising:

Step S1: training a multi-type acoustic feature integration model basedon deep neural networks using labeled speech data set,

wherein the deep neural networks comprise at least two subnetworkbranches for shallow-layer features, and a feature integration networkthat supports multiple acoustic features,

wherein contribution weights are calculated with attention mechanism forat least two types of shallow-layer features in frame level, and used toweight the shallow-layer features in frame level,

wherein deep integrated features are obtained in the feature integrationnetwork by dimension reduction or normalization processing onconcatenation or accumulation of different types of weightedshallow-layer features in frame level, and

wherein the network parameters of the multi-type acoustic featureintegration model are obtained or updated;

Step S2: inputting multiple types of acoustic features extracted fromthe testing speech to the trained multi-type acoustic featureintegration model, and extracting frame-level deep integrated featurevectors.

In this method, the distinction and complementarity between differenttypes of multi-type frame-level acoustic features are employed to traina multi-type acoustic feature integration model with relevant networkparameters for the specific speech task, and the trained multi-typeacoustic feature integration model is used to complete the specificspeech task with high accuracy and stability.

In some specific embodiments, the deep neural networks in Step S1comprise at least two subnetwork branches for shallow-layer features, afeature integration network that supports multiple acoustic features, atleast two fully connected hidden layers, and an output layer forspecific speech tasks. The realization of the neural networks formulti-type acoustic feature integration model is completed based on thesub-network structures mentioned above.

In some specific embodiments, Step S1 specifically comprises thefollowing sub-steps:

Step S11: extracting at least two different types of frame-levelacoustic features from each speech sample in the labeled speech dataset;

Step S12: inputting at least two different types of frame-level acousticfeatures into subnetwork branches for shallow-layer featuresrespectively,

wherein the shallow-layer features in frame level are obtained accordingto different types of acoustic features;

Step S13: with the attention mechanism, inputting the frame-levelshallow-layer feature vectors to the feature integration network toobtain a frame-level deep integrated feature vector;

Step S14: inputting the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors tothe hidden layers and transmitting to the output layer in sequence, and

wherein after the loss function calculation according to the specificspeech task, the network parameters of the whole deep learning networksare updated with backpropagation algorithm.

In this method, multiple different types of frame-level acousticfeatures are extracted for the speech sample, and then transmittedthrough the subnetwork branch for shallow-layer features respectively,the feature integration network and speech task processing stage insequence, and

wherein all the network parameters of the deep neural networks areobtained, and the idiographic parameters in the multi-type acousticfeature integration model are determined.

In some specific embodiments, Step S14 may further comprise: inputtingthe frame-level deep integrated feature vectors into the statisticspooling layer to obtain segment-level deep integrated feature vectors,

wherein the statistics pooling layer is set between the featureintegration network and two higher level fully connected hidden layers,

wherein the segment-level deep integrated feature vectors are input tothe hidden layers and transmitted to the output layer in sequence,

wherein after the loss function calculation according to the specificspeech task, the network parameters are updated with backpropagationalgorithm.

When it is for a segment-level speech task, after Step S13, theframe-level shallow-layer feature vectors are input to the statisticspooling layer to obtain segmental-level deep integrated feature vectorsthrough the pooling processing from frame level to segment level.

In some specific embodiments, the method of obtaining the frame-leveldeep integrated feature vectors in Step S13 specifically comprises:contribution weights are calculated with attention mechanism for atleast two types of shallow-layer features in frame level,

wherein deep integrated features are obtained in the feature integrationnetwork by dimension reduction or normalization processing onconcatenation or accumulation of different types of weightedshallow-layer features in frame level,

wherein dimension reduction or normalization processing is performedafter the weighted integration processing at the integration layer,

wherein the feature integration network comprises a fully connectedlayer with the attention mechanism, an integration layer, and a fullyconnected layer,

wherein deep integrated features are obtained in the feature integrationnetwork by dimension reduction or normalization processing on theframe-level preliminary integrated feature vectors.

In some specific embodiments, the weighted integration processingcomprises: weighting the shallow-layer features in frame level with thecorresponding contribution weight, and performing concatenation oraccumulation processing. The mathematical formula of the concatenationprocessing is as follows:I=Concat(a ₁ F ₁ ,a ₂ F ₂ , . . . ,a _(N) F _(N))

where I represents the frame-level preliminary integrated featurevectors, function Concat ( ) represents a concatenation operation, F₁,F₂, . . . , F_(N) represent the frame-level shallow-layer featurevectors, and a₁, a₂, . . . , a_(N) represent the correspondingcontribution weights, and N represents the number of types offrame-level acoustic features.

The mathematical formula of the accumulation processing is as follows:

$I = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N}{a_{i}F_{i}}}$

where I represents the frame-level preliminary integrated featurevectors, F_(i) represents the frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors,a_(i) respectively represents the corresponding contribution weight, andN represents the number of types of frame-level acoustic features.

In some specific embodiments, in the Step S2, according to the specificspeech tasks, the different types of acoustic features for the testingspeech are put into the trained multi-type acoustic feature integrationmodel, and the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors of thetesting speech are extracted from the feature integration network. Theframe-level deep integrated feature vectors are suitable for the testrequirements of frame-level speech tasks.

In some specific embodiments, the different types of acoustic featuresfor the testing speech are put into the trained multi-type acousticfeature integration model, and the segment-level deep integrated featurevectors of the testing speech are extracted from the statistics poolinglayer. The segment-level deep integrated feature vectors are suitablefor the test requirements of segment-level speech tasks.

In the second aspect, an embodiment of the present application providesa computer-readable storage medium with a computer program storedthereon, the method according to any one of the foregoing embodiments isexecuted when the program is executed by a processor.

In the third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides asystem for integrating multiple types of acoustic features based on deepneural networks, the system comprising:

acoustic feature extraction unit which is configured to preprocess atesting speech sample and extract at least two different types offrame-level acoustic features of the testing speech;

shallow feature unit which is configured for at least two differenttypes of shallow-layer feature network branches,

wherein it receives different types of the frame-level acoustic featuresof the testing speech respectively, and

wherein it outputs frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors of thetesting speech in each subnetwork branch;

feature integration unit wherein the contribution weights are calculatedwith attention mechanism for at least two types of shallow-layerfeatures in frame level, and used to weight the correspondingshallow-layer features in frame level,

wherein deep integrated features are obtained in the feature integrationnetwork by dimension reduction or normalization processing onconcatenation or accumulation of different types of weightedshallow-layer features in frame level;

speech task processing unit which comprises a frame-level speech taskprocessing unit and a segment-level speech task processing unit,

wherein the frame-level speech task processing unit is configured toreceive the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors of the testingspeech, to perform calculations on the neural network to completespecific frame-level speech tasks, and

wherein the segment-level speech task processing unit is configured toobtain the segment-level deep integrated feature vectors by aggregatingthe frame-level deep integrated feature vectors of the testing speech ina statistics pooling layer, to perform calculations on the neuralnetwork to complete specific segment-level speech task.

This application provides a multi-type acoustic feature integrationmethod and system based on deep neural networks. According to a specificspeech task, a multi-type acoustic feature integration model withoptimal network parameters is built, which is used to obtain frame-leveldeep integrated feature vectors or the segment-level deep integratedfeature vectors, and

wherein the frame-level/segment-level deep integrated feature vectors isprocessed by the neural network according to the specific speech task,and the specific speech task is finally completed,

wherein the multi-type acoustic feature integration model comprises theframe-level acoustic feature extraction, the frame-level shallow-layerfeature vector acquisition, and the frame-level/segment-level deepintegrated feature vectors acquisition.

wherein after the loss function calculation according to the specificspeech task, the network parameters of the whole deep learning networksare updated with backpropagation algorithm.

wherein the solution supports the extraction of multiple acousticfeature integration vectors in speech tasks such as speech recognition,speech wake-up, spoken language recognition, speaker recognition, andanti-spoofing etc. It explores the internal correlation between multipleacoustic features according to specific speech tasks. By making full useof the distinction and complementarity between different types ofacoustic features, the entire deep neural networks are joint optimizedwith the acoustic feature integration process, to obtain the frame-levelor segment-level deep integrated feature vectors of the task-relatedadaptation. The performances of the speech processing systems areimproved in terms of the accuracy and robustness in specific speechapplications.

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By reading the detailed description of non-limiting embodiments withreference to the following drawings, other features, purposes, andadvantages of the present application will become more apparent:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of deep neural networksaccording to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is an overall schematic flow chart of a multi-type acousticfeature integration model based on deep neural networks according to anembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a network parameter training flow chart of a multi-typeacoustic feature integration model based on deep neural networksaccording to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of subnetwork branch training for shallow-layerfeatures in a multi-type acoustic feature integration model based ondeep neural networks according to an embodiment of the presentapplication;

FIG. 5 is a deep neural network training flow chart of a multi-typeacoustic feature integration model based on deep neural networksaccording to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a neural network training flow chart with the multi-typeacoustic feature integration model for the specific speech tasksaccording to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a network structure diagram for segment-level speech taskswith a multi-type acoustic feature integration model based on deepneural networks according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a network structure diagram for frame-level speech tasks witha multi-type acoustic feature integration model based on deep neuralnetworks according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a multi-type acoustic featureintegration system based on deep neural networks according to anembodiment of the present application; and

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a computer system suitable forimplementing the electronic device of the embodiment of the presentapplication.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The application will be further described in detail below in conjunctionwith the drawings and embodiments. It can be understood that thespecific embodiments described here are only used to explain the relatedapplication, but not to limit the application. In addition, it should benoted that, for ease of description, only the parts related to therelated application are shown in the drawings.

It should be noted that, the embodiments in the application and thefeatures in the embodiments can be combined with each other if there isno conflict. Hereinafter, the present application will be described indetail with reference to the drawings and in conjunction withembodiments.

With reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram ofdeep neural networks according to an embodiment of the presentapplication, and FIG. 2 shows the overall schematic flow chart of amulti-type acoustic feature integration model based on deep neuralnetworks according to an embodiment of the present application. Asshown, the deep neural networks of the multi-type acoustic featureintegration model in the present application comprise at least twosubnetwork branches for shallow-layer features 101, a featureintegration network 102, a statistics pooling layer 103, a fullyconnected layer 104, and an output layer 105;

wherein multiple subnetwork branches for shallow-layer features 101 areconnected to a feature integration network 102;

wherein the feature integration network 102 is optionally connected tothe fully connected layer 104 and then to the output layer 105; as analternative, the feature integration network 102 is also connected tothe statistics pooling layer 103, the fully connected layer 104, and theoutput layer 105 in sequence;

wherein the speech samples in the labeled speech data set arepreprocessed to obtain different types of frame-level acoustic feature 1and frame-level acoustic feature 2, and

wherein the frame-level acoustic feature 1 and frame-level acousticfeature 2 are input into the corresponding subnetwork branch forshallow-layer features 101 with neural network nonlinear operationsprocessing, to obtain the frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors, and

wherein the frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors are input into thefeature integration network 102 to combine with the attention mechanismin neural network to calculate the contribution weight and then performweighted integration processing to obtain the frame-level deepintegrated feature vectors, and

wherein according to the requirements of the specific speech tasks,determine whether it is necessary to convert the frame-level deepintegrated feature into a segment-level deep integrated feature.

wherein if “Yes”, the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors areinput to the statistics pooling layer 103 for aggregation into asegment-level deep integrated feature vector, and then transmittedthrough the fully connected level 104 and output layer 105;

wherein if “No”, the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors aredirectly transmitted through the fully connected layer 104 and theoutput layer 105;

wherein after calculating the loss function according to the specificspeech task, the network parameters are updated with the backpropagationalgorithm.

In some specific embodiments, the neural networks can be but not limitedto: deep neural networks (DNN), convolutional neural networks (CNN),recurrent neural networks (RNN), time delay neural networks (TDNN),residual neural networks (ResNet), etc.

FIG. 3 shows a network parameter training flow chart of a multi-typeacoustic feature integration model based on deep neural networksaccording to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG.3, the method comprises the steps of frame-level acoustic features,frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors, frame-level deep integratedfeature vectors, and speech task processing.

In Step S11: extract at least two different types of frame-levelacoustic features from each speech sample in the labeled speech dataset.

In this step, the multiple different types of frame-level acousticfeatures are extracted from the speech sample in labeled speech dataset. The appropriate type of frame-level acoustic features can beselected according to the specific speech task. At present, the popularacoustic features include many types of acoustic features, such as Melfilter bank feature (FBank), Mel cepstral coefficient feature (MFCC),perceptual linear prediction feature (PLP), and spectrogram feature(Spectrogram).

In some specific embodiments, for the speech tasks like speechrecognition and speech wake-up, FBank and PLP are popularly employed;for the speech tasks like spoken language recognition, FBank and PLP arefrequently adopted; for the speech task like speaker recognition, MFCCand PLP are used as mainstream acoustic features; for the speech tasklike anti-spoofing task, FBank and Spectrogram are commonly implemented;

wherein extracting multiple different types of frame-level acousticfeatures to perform related operations according to specific speechtasks in subsequent steps, will circumvent the problem of low accuracyrate in speech applications, which is usually caused by utilizing only asingle type of acoustic feature.

In some specific embodiments, before the extraction of different typesof frame-level acoustic features for the speech samples in the labeledspeech data set, the speech samples need to be preprocessed. Framing isone of the preprocessing steps, and the speech samples are divided intoframes. The specific frame length and frame shift parameters should bespecified according to the specific speech task.

In some preferred embodiments, when the speech task is to identify thespeaker, the frame length is usually set as 25 milliseconds, and theframe shift is set as 10 milliseconds.

In some specific embodiments, according to the requirements of thespeech tasks and the characteristic of the specific acoustic features,the preprocessing step may optionally perform a windowing operation onthe speech samples after framing, to smooth the transition betweendifferent frames. It is optional to choose a Hamming window, a Blackmanwindow, etc.

In some specific embodiments, according to the requirements of specificspeech tasks, the preprocessing step may optionally employ a silencedetection algorithm (voice activity detection, VAD) to determine whethereach frame of a speech sample is a silent frame, after the calculationof the frame-level acoustic features for each frame. One can choose tokeep or remove the speech frame which has been determined as a silentframe, according to the specific requirement of the speech task.

In Step S12: inputting at least two different types of frame-levelacoustic features into subnetwork branches for shallow-layer featuresrespectively, wherein the shallow-layer features in frame level areobtained according to different types of acoustic features.

In this step, different types of frame-level acoustic features are inputinto corresponding subnetwork branches for shallow-layer featuresrespectively, and frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors for specificspeech tasks are extracted with neural network nonlinear operations.

In Step S13: with the attention mechanism, inputting the frame-levelshallow-layer feature vectors to the feature integration network, toobtain a frame-level deep integrated feature vector after dimensionreduction or normalization processing.

In this step, in the feature integration network, the contributionweight is calculated for each type of shallow-layer features in framelevel, to weight the shallow-layer features in frame level,

wherein frame-level deep integrated features are obtained by dimensionreduction or normalization processing on concatenation or accumulationof different types of weighted shallow-layer features in frame level.

In some specific embodiments, after weighting processing and integrationprocessing, the frame-level preliminary integrated feature vectors areobtained, and then transmitted to dimension reduction or normalizationprocessing. This step can be implemented through one or several fullyconnected layers to obtain frame-level deep integrated feature vectors.

In some specific embodiments, the dimension reduction and thenormalization processing can be completed respectively by one neuralnetwork structure, or by multiple different neural network structures.

In Step S14-1: the frame-level depth feature integration vectors areinput to the hidden layer and transmitted to the output layer insequence. After calculating the loss function calculation according tospecific speech task, the network parameters of the whole deep learningnetworks are updated with backpropagation algorithm.

In Step S14-2: the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors are inputto the statistics pooling layer to form a segment-level deep integratedfeature vector,

wherein the statistics pooling layer is set between the featureintegration network and the two higher level fully connected hiddenlayers. The segment-level deep integrated feature vectors is input tothe hidden layer and transmitted to the output layer. After calculatingthe loss function calculation according to the specific speech task, thenetwork parameters of the whole deep learning networks are updated withbackpropagation algorithm.

In this step, according to the requirements of the specific speech task,it is determined whether it is necessary to convert the frame-level deepintegrated feature to the segment-level deep integrated feature.

If “No”, perform Step S14-1 to directly output the frame-level deepintegrated feature vectors through the fully connected layer and theoutput layer;

if “Yes”, perform Step S14-2 to input the frame-level deep integratedfeature vectors into the statistics pooling layer for aggregation into asegment-level deep integrated feature vector, and then output it throughthe fully connected layer and the output layer.

And after Step S14-1 or Step S14-2 is performed, the loss function iscalculated according to the specific speech task to update the networkparameters of all the above-mentioned neural networks, so as to realizethe joint optimization training of the entire deep neural network toobtain a multi-type acoustic feature integration model based on theoptimal deep neural networks.

In some specific embodiments, the step of forming the segment-level deepintegrated feature vectors specifically comprises:

inputting the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors to thestatistics pooling layer, and aggregating all the frame-level deepintegrated feature vectors of a speech segment;

calculating separately the mean and standard deviation corresponding tothe frame-level deep integrated feature vectors;

the segment-level deep integrated feature vectors is obtained by theconcatenation of the mean and standard deviation vectors.

In some specific embodiments, in the training phase, determination ismade according to the recognition results of specific speech task, andthe acoustic feature extraction, shallow-layer feature vectorsacquirement and feature integration steps are jointly trained tooptimize network parameters and obtain multi-type acoustic featureintegration model based on deep neural networks for specific speechtasks, to improve robustness and recognition rate in the specific speechapplications of this application.

Continuing to refer to FIG. 4, it shows a flow chart of subnetworkbranch training for shallow-layer features in a multi-type acousticfeature integration model based on deep neural networks according to anembodiment of the present application. The specific process comprisesthe following steps:

Step 121: according to specific speech task processing requirements,multiple different types of frame-level acoustic features for each frameof speech are extracted, which are suitable for the specific speechtask.

In some specific embodiments, different types of frame-level acousticfeatures for each frame in a speech segment are extracted from thespeech samples in the labeled speech data set according to specificspeech tasks, such as FBank, MFCC, PLP, Spectrogram, etc.;

wherein, at least two types of acoustic features for each frame ofspeech are extracted, to execute multiple types of frame-levelshallow-layer feature vectors acquisition step.

Step 122: The number of subnetwork branches for shallow-layer featuresis the same as the number of types of the frame-level acoustic features,and

wherein the same or different subnetwork branch structures are adopted,which are suitable for the speech tasks.

In some specific embodiments, each subnetwork branch for shallow-layerfeatures is independent of each other in the process of forwardpropagation and backpropagation parameters iteration, and the optionalnetwork structures are also different. For example, a 3-layer TDNNnetwork or a 4-layer TDNN network or a 4-layer CNN network can beselected as the network structure of the subnetwork branch forshallow-layer features.

Step 123: According to the characteristics of different types offrame-level acoustic features, different types of frame-level acousticfeatures are input to the corresponding type of subnetwork branch forshallow-layer features to obtain corresponding frame-level shallow-layerfeature vectors, respectively.

In some specific embodiments, the specific network structure of eachsubnetwork branch for shallow-layer features should be selectedaccording to the requirements of the specific speech task;

wherein with the most suitable neural network structure for eachsubnetwork branch, the frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors relatedto the specific speech task are obtained, by transmitting differenttypes of frame-level acoustic features through the correspondingsubnetwork branch.

In some preferred embodiments, when the frame-level acoustic featuresare MFCCs, 3-layer TDNN network can be selected as the subnetwork branchfor shallow-layer features, to extract the frame-level shallow-layerfeature vectors;

wherein when the frame-level acoustic features are perceptual predictionfeatures, 4-layer TDNN network can be selected as the subnetwork branchfor shallow-layer features, to extract the frame-level shallow-layerfeature vectors;

wherein when the frame-level acoustic feature is a spectrogram feature,4-layer CNN network can be selected as the subnetwork branch forshallow-layer features, to extract the frame-level shallow-layer featurevectors.

In some specific embodiments, taking three different types offrame-level acoustic features and the corresponding three subnetworkbranches for shallow-layer features as examples, the subnetwork branchesfor shallow-layer features are used to perform neural network nonlinearoperation processing on three different types of frame-level acousticfeatures in the same frame respectively, the specific expression formulais as follows:F ₁ =D(f ₁)_(a) ,F ₂ =D(f ₂)_(b) ,F ₃ =C(f ₃)

where f_(i) represents the i-th frame-level acoustic feature, D(f_(i))represents the time-delay neural network, D (f_(i))_(a) represents adeep time-delay neural network in certain network configuration (such asconfiguration a), D(f_(i))_(b) represents a deep time-delay neuralnetwork with another network configuration (such as configuration b),C(f_(i)) represents the convolutional neural network, F_(i) representsthe i-th frame-level shallow-layer feature vector, i=1, 2, 3. Accordingto specific speech tasks, different types of frame-level acousticfeatures adopt different neural networks to perform neural networknonlinear operation processing, and obtain corresponding frame-levelshallow-layer feature vectors.

Continue to refer to FIG. 5, which shows a deep neural network trainingflow chart of a multi-type acoustic feature integration model based ondeep neural networks in an embodiment of the present application. Thespecific process comprises the following steps:

Step 131: the contribution weight is calculated for each frame-levelshallow-layer feature vector by processing each frame-levelshallow-layer feature vectors on the neural networks with attentionmechanism.

In some specific embodiments, contribution weights are calculated topresent the contribution of each frame-level shallow-layer featurevector with the attention mechanism;

wherein the contribution of each frame-level shallow-layer featurevector is determined by using the attention mechanism in the neuralnetworks. The mathematical formula is as follows:

${u_{i} = {v_{m}^{T}{\tanh\left( {{W_{e}F_{i}} + b_{e}} \right)}}}{a_{i} = \frac{\exp\left( u_{i} \right)}{\sum\limits_{i}^{N}{\exp\left( u_{n} \right)}}}$

where m represents the number of input nodes of the attention mechanismlayer, v_(m) ^(T), represents the transpose of the identity matrix withthe number of rows m, function tan h ( ) represents the activationfunction, W_(e) and b_(e) represent learnable parameters with theattention mechanism, F_(i) represents the i-th frame-level shallow-layerfeature vector, N represents the number of types of frame-level acousticfeatures, a_(i) represents the contribution weight value (probability)of the i-th frame-level acoustic feature, u_(i) represents thecontribution value of the i-th frame-level acoustic feature, i=1, 2, . .. , N, N represents the number of types of frame-level acousticfeatures.

Step 132: the frame-level preliminary integrated feature vectors areobtained by weighting processing, and

wherein frame-level shallow-layer features are integrated after beingweighted with the corresponding contribution weights, which arecalculated for frame-level shallow-layer features.

In some specific embodiments, the frame-level preliminary integratedfeature vector can be obtained in the following two methods:

In the first method, based on the contribution weights of eachframe-level shallow-layer feature vector obtained by the attentionmechanism in the neural network, weighting operation and concatenationare performed on multiple types of frame-level shallow-layer featurevectors. The mathematical formula is as follows:I=Concat(a ₁ F ₁ ,a ₂ F ₂ , . . . ,a _(N) F _(N))

where I represents the frame-level preliminary integrated featurevectors, function Concat ( ) represents a concatenation operation, F₁,F₂, . . . , F_(N) respectively represent the frame-level shallow-layerfeature vectors, and a₁, a₂, . . . , a_(N) respectively represent thecorresponding contribution weights, and N represents the number of typesof frame-level acoustic features.

In the second method, based on the contribution weights of eachframe-level shallow-layer feature vectors obtained by the attentionmechanism in the neural network, weighting operation and accumulationprocessing are performed on multiple types of frame-level shallow-layerfeature vectors. The mathematical formula is as follows:I=Σ _(i=1) ^(N) a _(i) F _(i)

where I represents the frame-level preliminary integrated featurevectors, F_(i) represents the frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors,a_(i) respectively represents the corresponding contribution weight, andN represents the number of types of frame-level acoustic features.

Step 133: Perform dimension reduction or normalization processing on theframe-level preliminary integrated feature vector to obtain aframe-level deep integrated feature vector.

In some specific embodiments, the mathematical formula for performingdimension reduction on frame-level preliminary integrated featurevectors I is as follows:I _(low) =L(I)

where L(I) represents the function of dimension reduction, I_(low)represents the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors afterdimension reduction, its dimension should be less than or equal to thedimension of I, I represents the frame-level preliminary integratedfeature vectors. By performing dimension reduction on the frame-levelpreliminary integrated feature vector, the frame-level deep integratedfeature vectors after dimension reduction integration is obtained.

In some specific embodiments, the mathematical formula for performingnormalization operation on frame-level preliminary integrated featurevectors I is as follows:

$I_{norm} = \frac{I - \mu}{\sigma}$

where I_(norn) represents the normalized feature vectors, I representsthe frame-level preliminary integrated feature vectors, μ represents themean of I, σ represents the variance of I.

Continuing to refer to FIG. 6, it shows a neural network training flowchart with the multi-type acoustic feature integration model for thespecific speech tasks according to an embodiment of the presentapplication.

Step 141: Inputting the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors intothe neural networks for specific speech task.

Step 142: For the speech task-related processing in neural networks,according to the differences of specific speech tasks, frame-level orsegment-level speech task is processed with the frame-level deepintegrated feature vectors in corresponding neural network structures,and then the loss function of the specific speech task is calculated.

Step 143: after the loss function calculation for specific speech task,the network parameters of the whole deep learning networks are updatedwith backpropagation algorithm.

In some specific embodiments, the speech tasks comprise speechrecognition, speech wake-up, spoken language recognition, speakerrecognition, anti-spoofing, etc. The task of speech recognition is torecognize the specific text content in the speech; the task of speakerrecognition is to determine the speaker identity for one speechutterance. Among them, the speech recognition task and the speechwake-up task are frame-level speech processing tasks, and the speakerrecognition task, spoken language recognition task, and anti-spoofingtask are segment-level speech processing tasks.

In some specific embodiments, when the speaker recognition task is asegment-level speech task that needs to be processed, the x-vectornetwork can be selected correspondingly as the network framework forspeaker recognition tasks. The input of the x-vector network is inframes, which utilizes TDNN network. In the x-vector network, thestatistics pooling layer is used to calculate the mean and standarddeviation of each speech segment, to realize the conversion from theframe-level shallow-layer feature vectors to the segment-level deepintegrated feature vectors, and calculates the probability that asegment-level feature belongs to a particular speaker.

In some specific embodiments, when the speech task is a task ofprocessing the speaker recognition task, obtaining the correspondingspeech task result relates to obtain the probability that a speechsegment belongs to a certain speaker.

In some specific embodiments, for processing the task of speakerrecognition, in the training phase, after a speech segment belonging toa certain speaker is received, the softmax is used as the loss function,and then the backpropagation is performed, and the stochastic gradientdescent algorithm (SGD) is used to update the network parameters. Themathematical expression of softmax is as follows:

${L_{S} = {{- \frac{1}{n}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{n}{\log\frac{e^{W_{yi}^{T}f_{i}}}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{c}e^{W_{j}^{T}f_{i}}}}}}},$

where n represents the number of speakers in the training set, f_(i)represents the input for the last hidden layer for the i-th speaker,W_(yi) ^(T) represents a learnable parameter of the y-th node in theoutput layer corresponding to the i-th speaker, j represents the j-thoutput node of the last hidden layer, W_(j) ^(T) represents a learnableparameter in the last hidden layer corresponding to the j-th node, crepresents the total number of output nodes of the last hidden layer,and usually c=n. The calculation by the softmax function can optimizethe parameters of the neural network in speech recognition.

In some specific embodiments, during the test phase of the speakerrecognition task, if it is a closed-set test task for speakerrecognition (speaker identification), a speech segment is input toobtain the probability that a speech segment belongs to each speaker;

wherein if it is an open-set test task for speaker recognition (speakerverification), an enrollment speech segment is input so as to extractthe parameters of the affine transformation layer from a hidden layer asthe speaker's segment-level deep integrated feature vectors, and

wherein a segment of test speech is input to extract the segment-leveldeep integrated feature vectors of the speaker to be tested, and

wherein the similarities of two segment-level deep integrated featurevectors are compared, for example using the Cosine distance, so as toobtain the confidence that the two speech segments belong to the sameperson. The mathematical expression for similarity determination byCosine distance is as follows:

${si{m\left( {X,Y} \right)}} = {{\cos\;\theta} = \frac{\overset{\rightarrow}{x}\overset{\rightarrow}{y}}{{x} \cdot {y}}}$

where sim(X,Y) represents the confidence score of these two X, Yspeeches that are assumed to belong to the same speaker, {right arrowover (x)} represents speaker's segment-level deep integrated featurevectors for speech X, {right arrow over (y)} represents speaker'ssegment-level deep integrated feature vectors for speech Y.

In some specific embodiments, a speech recognition task is the speechtask to be processed. In the speech recognition task, the goal of thespeech task is to determine what phoneme or state the content of eachspeech frame is assigned to.

In some specific embodiments, a speech recognition task is theframe-level speech task to be processed. In order to deal with thespeech recognition task, the DNN-HMM network (Deep Neural Network-HiddenMarkov Model) can be selected as the network architecture of the speechrecognition task. Frame-level speech samples are used as the input ofthe DNN-HMM network is, and are processed by the TDNN network; and

wherein the whole procedure is performed with the frame-level feature,calculating the probability of a certain phoneme or state that aframe-level deep integrated feature vector of each frame is assigned to.

In some specific embodiments, when the speech task is a speechrecognition task, obtaining the corresponding speech task result relatesto obtain the probability of a certain phoneme that a speech frame isassigned to.

In some specific embodiments, the speech recognition task is processed.In the training phase, the posterior probability of a speech framebelonging to some phoneme or state is obtained, and the Cross Entropy iscalculated as the loss function, and then backpropagation is performedand stochastic gradient descent algorithm (SGD) is used to update thenetwork parameters. The mathematical expression of the Cross Entropy isas follows:

${J_{CE}\left( {{\theta;0},w} \right)} = {{- \frac{1}{M}}{\sum\limits_{1}^{M}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{C}{w_{i}\log v_{i}^{L}}}}}$$w_{i} = \left\{ {\begin{matrix}{1,} & {y_{predict} = y_{truth}} \\{0,} & {else}\end{matrix},} \right.$

where θ represents a model parameter, M is a natural integer andrepresents the number of samples in the training set, C is a naturalinteger and represents the number of phonemes or states in the trainingset, v_(i) ^(L) represents the input for the last hidden layer, andrepresents the probability that the observation vector O is assigned tothe phoneme or the state for the i-th class, which is predicted by thenetwork, the condition y_(predict)=y_(truth) represents that theobservation sequence is consistent with the label sequence, w_(i) is theweight according to the condition, which has a value of 0 or 1.

In some specific embodiments, the speech recognition task is processed.In the testing phase, a speech segment is input, and the network outputsthe probability of a phoneme or state that each frame of the speechsegment is assigned to.

In some specific embodiments, in the training phase, the acousticfeature extraction step, the frame-level shallow-layer feature vectoracquisition step, the frame-level deep integrated feature vectorsacquisition step, and the speech task processing step are optimized andtrained jointly, so that various neural network performances in thespeech task processing step are optimized. Using loss function tooptimize the relevant network parameters of each step, so that therequirements of the specific speech task are more matched by each step,and the accuracy and stability of the overall multi-type acousticfeature integration model are improved.

In some preferred embodiments, let L_(s) represent a loss function ofthe speech task processing step, L_(e) represent a loss function ofshallow-layer features, L_(i) represent a loss function of featureintegration, L_(f) represent the total loss function of joint training,then L_(f)=L_(s), or L_(f)=(1−α)L_(s)+αL_(e), where α⊂(0,1), orL_(f)=(1−α−β)L_(s)+αL_(e)+βL_(i), where α⊂(0,1), β⊂(0,1), and (α+β)<1.

Continuing to refer to FIG. 7, it shows a diagram of network structurefor processing frame-level speech tasks using a multi-type acousticfeature integration model of a deep neural network according to anembodiment of the present application. As shown, when the speech tasksare speaker recognition tasks, spoken language recognition tasks, andanti-spoofing tasks, the speech tasks with the multi-type acousticfeature integration model are implemented by segment-level speechprocessing structures. The specific network structure comprises anacoustic feature extraction structure 701, a vector neural networkmodule for frame-level shallow-layer feature 702, a neural networkstructure for frame-level deep integrated feature vector 703, and aneural network structure for segment-level speech task processing 704.

wherein the testing speech is input into the acoustic feature extractionstructure 701 for preprocessing such as framing, silence detectionprocessing, and windowing, to obtain frame-level acoustic feature 1 andframe-level acoustic feature 2; and

wherein the frame-level acoustic feature 1 and the frame-level acousticfeature 2 are input to the TDNN subnetwork branch for shallow-layerfeatures and the CNN subnetwork branch for shallow-layer featuresrespectively;

wherein the shallow-layer features are input into the neural networkstructure of frame-level deep integrated feature vector 703 respectivelyto be weighted by the corresponding contribution weights which arecalculated with the attention mechanism, and

wherein frame-level deep integrated feature vectors are obtained bydimension reduction or normalization processing in the fully connectedlayer after the concatenation or accumulation of different types ofweighted shallow-layer features; and

wherein the statistics pooling layer in the neural network structure offrame-level speech task processing 704 is used to calculates the meanand standard deviation for each speech segment, in order to realize theconversion from the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors to thesegment-level deep integrated feature vectors; and

wherein the segment-level deep integrated feature vectors is transmittedthrough the fully connected layer for speech task processing, and therecognition result of the specific speech task are output.

Continuing to refer to FIG. 8, it shows a network structure diagram forprocessing frame-level speech tasks using a multi-type acoustic featureintegration model of a deep neural network according to an embodiment ofthe present application. As shown, when the speech tasks are speechrecognition tasks and speech wake-up tasks, the speech tasks with themulti-type acoustic feature integration model adopt frame-levelprocessing structure. The specific network structure comprises anacoustic feature extraction structure 801, a neural network structurefor frame-level shallow-layer feature vector 802, a neural networkstructure for frame-level deep integrated feature vector 803, and aneural network structure for frame-level speech task processing 804.

wherein since the specific flow and structure of the acoustic featureextraction structure 801, the neural network structure for frame-levelshallow-layer feature vector 802, and the neural network structure forframe-level deep integrated feature vector 803 in the frame-level speechprocessing structure are the same as those in FIG. 7, for the sake ofconcise of the description, they won't be reiterated here; and

wherein after dimension reduction or normalization through the fullyconnected layer of the neural network structure for frame-level deepintegrated feature vector 803, the fully connected layer of the neuralnetwork structure for frame-level speech task processing 804 is directlyinput into the frame-level speech task processing structure to performthe speech task, and the probability of each frame belonging to somephoneme or state is output.

In addition, this application also proposes a multi-type acousticfeature integration system based on deep neural networks. As shown inFIG. 9, a multi-type acoustic feature integration system based on deepneural networks 900 comprises an acoustic feature extraction unit 901, ashallow-layer feature unit 902, a feature integration unit 903, and aspeech task processing unit 904.

wherein the acoustic feature extraction unit 901 is used to preprocessthe testing speech and extract at least two different types offrame-level acoustic features; and

wherein the shallow-layer feature unit 902 is used to perform neuralnetwork nonlinear calculations with the at least two different types offrame-level acoustic features for the input testing speech, to extractframe-level shallow-layer feature vectors for speech task-relatedinformation; and

wherein the feature integration unit 903 is configured to receive atleast two different types of frame-level shallow-layer feature vector ofthe testing speech in a feature integration network, and output aframe-level deep integrated feature vector of the testing speech withthe attention mechanism; and

wherein the speech task processing unit 904 comprises a frame-levelspeech task processing unit 9041 and a segment-level speech taskprocessing unit 9042,

wherein the frame-level speech task processing unit 9041 is used toinput the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors of the testingspeech in the hidden layer, to perform neural network calculations, soas to complete frame-level specific speech task;

wherein the segment-level speech task processing unit 9042 is used toaggregate the frame-level deep integrated feature vectors of the testingspeech into the segment-level deep integrated feature vectors in thestatistics pooling layer, which segment-level deep integrated featurevectors are input into the fully connected layer for neural networkcalculations to complete the segment-level specific speech task.

Referring now to FIG. 10, it shows a schematic structural diagram of acomputer system 1000 suitable for implementing an electronic deviceaccording to an embodiment of the present application. The electronicdevice shown in FIG. 10 is only an example, and should not bring anylimitation to the function and scope of use of the embodiments of thepresent application.

As shown in FIG. 10, the computer system 1000 comprises a centralprocessing unit (CPU) 1001, and

wherein the central processing unit (CPU) 1001 performs variousappropriate actions and processing according to a program stored in aread-only memory (ROM) 1002, or a program in a random-access memory(RAM) 1003 which is loaded from a storage section 1008; and

wherein the RAM 1003, various programs and data required for theoperations of the system 1000 are also stored; and

wherein the CPU 1001, ROM 1002, and RAM 1003 are connected to each otherthrough a bus 1004; and

wherein an input/output (I/O) interface 1005 is also connected to thebus 1004.

The following components are connected to the I/O interface 1005: aninput section 1003 comprising input portions such as a keyboard, amouse, etc.; output portions 1004 such as a liquid crystal display(LCD), speakers, etc.; storage portions 1008 comprising a hard disk,etc.; and communication portions 1009 such as a local-area network(LNA)card, a modem etc. The communication portions 1009 performscommunication processing via a network such as the Internet. A driver1010 can also be connected to the I/O interface 1005 as required. Aremovable medium loll, such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, amagneto-optical disk, a semiconductor memory, etc., is installed on thedrive 1010 as required, so that the computer program read therefrom isinstalled into the storage portions 1008 as required.

In particular, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, theprocess described above with reference to the flow chart can beimplemented as a computer software program. For example, an embodimentof the present disclosure comprises a computer program product, whichcomprises a computer program carried on a computer-readable medium, andthe computer program contains program code for executing the methodshown in the flow chart. In such an embodiment, the computer program maybe downloaded and installed from the network through the communicationsection 1009, and/or installed from the removable medium loll. When thecomputer program is executed by the central processing unit (CPU) 1001,it executes the above-mentioned functions defined in the method of thepresent application.

It should be noted that the computer-readable medium of the presentapplication may be a computer-readable signal medium or acomputer-readable medium or any combination of the above two. Thecomputer-readable medium may be, for example, but not limited to, anelectrical, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, orsemiconductor system, apparatus or device, or any combination of theabove. More specific examples of computer-readable medium may comprise,but are not limited to: electrical connections with one or more wires,portable computer disks, hard disks, random access memory (RAM),read-only memory (ROM), erasable programmable Read only memory (EPROM orflash memory), optical fiber, portable compact disk read only memory(CD-ROM), optical storage device, magnetic storage device, or anysuitable combination of the above. In this application, thecomputer-readable medium may be any tangible medium that contains orstores a program, and the program may be used by or in combination withan instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. In thisapplication, a computer-readable signal medium may comprise a datasignal propagated in a baseband or as a part of a carrier wave, and acomputer-readable program code is carried therein. This propagated datasignal can take many forms, including but not limited to electromagneticsignals, optical signals, or any suitable combination of the above. Thecomputer-readable signal medium may also be any computer-readable mediumother than the computer-readable medium, and the computer-readablemedium may send, propagate or transmit the program for use by or incombination with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.The program code contained on the computer-readable medium can betransmitted by any suitable medium, including but not limited to:wireless, wire, optical cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination ofthe above.

The computer program code used to perform the operations of thisapplication can be written in one or more programming languages or acombination thereof. The programming languages comprise object-orientedprogramming languages—such as Java, Smalltalk, C++, Python, andconventional procedural programming languages-such as C programminglanguage or similar programming language. The program code can beexecuted entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer,executed as an independent software package, partly on the user'scomputer and partly executed on a remote computer, or entirely executedon the remote computer or server. In the case of a remote computer, theremote computer can be connected to the user's computer through any kindof network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network(WAN), or it can be connected to an external computer (for example,using an Internet service provider to pass Internet connection).

The flow charts and block diagrams in the drawings illustrate thepossible implementation of the system architecture, functions, andoperations of the system, method, and computer program product accordingto various embodiments of the present application. In this regard, eachblock in the flow chart or block diagram can represent a module, programsegment, or part of code, and the module, program segment, or part ofcode contains one or more executable instructions for realizing thespecified logical function. It should also be noted that, in somealternative implementations, the functions marked in the block may alsooccur in a different order from the order marked in the drawings. Forexample, two blocks shown one after another can actually be executedsubstantially in parallel, or they can sometimes be executed in thereverse order, depending on the functions involved. It should also benoted that each block in the block diagram and/or flow chart, and thecombination of the blocks in the block diagram and/or flow chart, can beimplemented by a dedicated hardware-based system that performs thespecified functions or operations, or it can be realized by acombination of dedicated hardware and computer instructions.

The modules involved in the embodiments described in the presentapplication can be implemented in software or hardware. The describedmodule can also be set in the processor, for example, it can bedescribed as: a processor comprises an acoustic feature extraction unit,a shallow-layer feature unit, a feature integration unit, and a speechtask processing unit. Among them, the names of these modules do notconstitute a limitation on the module itself under certaincircumstances. For example, the acoustic feature extraction unit canalso be described as “preprocessing the testing speech and extracting atleast two different types of frame-level acoustic features of thetesting speech”.

As another aspect, this application also provides a computer-readablemedium. The computer-readable medium may be comprised in the electronicdevice described in the above-mentioned embodiment; or it may existalone without being assembled into the electronic device. Theaforementioned computer-readable medium carries one or more programs.When the aforementioned one or more programs are executed by theelectronic device, the electronic device: preprocess a testing speechand extract at least two different types of frame-level acousticfeatures of the testing speech; different types of subnetwork branchesfor shallow-layer features respectively input at least two differenttypes of the frame-level acoustic features of the testing speech, andoutput frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors corresponding to atleast two different types of frame-level acoustic features of thetesting speech of each subnetwork branch for shallow-layer features; ina feature integration network, with the attention mechanism, input atleast two different types of input frame-level shallow-layer featurevectors of the testing speech, and output a frame-level deep integratedfeature vector of the testing speech; to input the frame-level deepintegrated feature vectors of the testing speech in the hidden layer,perform neural network calculations to complete specific frame-levelspeech tasks; or to aggregate the frame-level deep integrated featurevectors of the testing speech into a segment-level deep integratedfeature vector in the statistics pooling layer, and then input it intothe fully connected hidden layer to perform neural network calculationsto complete specific segment-level speech tasks.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the presentapplication and an explanation of the applied technical principles.Those skilled in the art should understand that the scope of theinvention involved in this application is not limited to the technicalsolutions formed by the specific combination of the above technicalfeatures, and should also cover the above technical features ortechnical solutions without departing from the above inventive concept.Other technical solutions formed by any combination of its equivalentfeatures. For example, a technical solution formed by substituting theabove features and the technical features disclosed in this application(but not limited to) with similar functions.

The invention claimed is:
 1. A multi-type acoustic feature integrationmethod based on deep neural networks, wherein, the method comprising:Step S1: training a multi-type acoustic feature integration model basedon deep neural networks using labeled speech data set, wherein the deepneural networks comprise at least two subnetwork branches forshallow-layer features, and a feature integration network that supportsmultiple acoustic features, wherein contribution weights are calculatedwith attention mechanism for at least two types of shallow-layerfeatures in frame level, and used to weight the shallow-layer featuresin frame level, wherein deep integrated features are obtained in thefeature integration network by dimension reduction or normalizationprocessing on concatenation or accumulation of different types ofweighted shallow-layer features in frame level, and wherein the networkparameters of the multi-type acoustic feature integration model areobtained or updated; Step S2: inputting multiple types of acousticfeatures extracted from a testing speech to the trained multi-typeacoustic feature integration model, and extracting frame-level deepintegrated feature vectors of the testing speech.
 2. The multi-typeacoustic feature integration method based on deep neural networksaccording to claim 1, the deep neural networks in Step S1 also comprisea statistics pooling layer that aggregates frame-level deep integratedfeature vectors into segment-level deep integrated feature vectors, atleast two fully connected hidden layers, and an output layer forspecific speech tasks.
 3. The multi-type acoustic feature integrationmethod based on deep neural networks according to claim 2, wherein, StepS1 specifically comprises the following sub-steps: Step S11: extractingat least two different types of frame-level acoustic features from eachspeech sample in the labeled speech data set; Step S12: inputting atleast two different types of frame-level acoustic features intosubnetwork branches for shallow-layer features respectively, wherein theshallow-layer features in frame level are obtained according todifferent types of acoustic features; Step S13: with the attentionmechanism, inputting the frame-level shallow-layer feature vectors tothe feature integration network to obtain a frame-level deep integratedfeature vector; Step S14: inputting the frame-level deep integratedfeature vectors to the hidden layers and the output layer in sequence,and wherein after the loss function calculation according to thespecific speech task, the network parameters of the whole deep learningnetworks are updated with backpropagation algorithm.
 4. The multi-typeacoustic feature integration method based on deep neural networksaccording to claim 3, wherein, Step S14 further comprises: inputting theframe-level deep integrated feature vectors into the statistics poolinglayer to obtain segment-level deep integrated feature vectors, whereinthe statistics pooling layer is set between the feature integrationnetwork and two higher level fully connected hidden layers, wherein thesegment-level deep integrated feature vectors are input to the hiddenlayers and transmitted to the output layer in sequence, wherein afterthe loss function calculation according to the specific speech task, thenetwork parameters are updated with backpropagation algorithm.
 5. Themulti-type acoustic feature integration method based on deep neuralnetworks according to claim 1, wherein, the feature integration networkconsists of one fully connected layer with the attention mechanism, oneintegration layer and one fully, connected layer.
 6. The multi-typeacoustic feature integration method based on deep neural networksaccording to claim 1, wherein, the mathematical formula of theconcatenation processing is as follows:I=Concat(a ₁ F ₁ ,a ₂ F ₂ , . . . ,a _(N) F _(N)) where I represents theframe-level preliminary integrated feature vectors, function Concat ( )represents a concatenation operation, F₁,F₂, . . . ,F_(N) represent theframe-level shallow layer feature vectors respectively, and a₁,a₂, . . ., FN represent the corresponding contribution weights, and N representsthe number of types of frame-level acoustic features; and themathematical formula of the accumulation processing is as follows:$I = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N}{a_{i}F_{i}}}$ where I represents theframe-level preliminary integrated feature vectors, F_(i) represents theframe-level shallow-layer feature vectors, a_(i) respectively representsthe corresponding contribution weight, and N represents the number oftypes of frame-level acoustic features.
 7. The multi-type acousticfeature integration method based on deep neural networks according toclaim 3, wherein, in Step S2, according to specific speech tasks, thedifferent types of acoustic features for the testing speech are put intothe trained multi-type acoustic feature integration model, and theframe-level deep integrated feature vectors of the testing speech areextracted from the feature integration network.
 8. The multi-typeacoustic feature integration method based on deep neural networksaccording to claim 4, wherein, the different types of acoustic featuresfor the testing speech are put into the trained multi-type acousticfeature integration model, and the segment-level deep integrated featurevectors of the testing speech are extracted from the statistics poolinglayer.
 9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with acomputer program stored thereon, wherein, implements the methodaccording to claim 1, when the program is executed by a processor.